Agnes Werle, left, of Hilton and Jerry Farwell of Rochester browse the holiday crafts at Craft Company No. 6 on University Avenue. Holiday shopping is expected to be brisk in the coming weeks.

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Lynn Allinger is dreaming of a green Christmas, the green of greenbacks specifically.

Business at Craft Company No. 6, a staple of Rochester's Neighborhood of the Arts that Allinger co-owns, is off to a solid start this holiday shopping season, with particularly heavy traffic on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday.

With the gift store generating one-third of its annual revenue in the four-plus weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the hope is to see those sales continue, if not grow. ...